The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.